Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Pricing Guidance team as a product-focused Staff Backend Engineer to build the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts. You will work with product and design partners, collaborate with engineering teams, and develop new host pricing functionality. This role requires 10+ years of industry experience leading teams and building user-facing products. You'll need excellent communication skills and experience mentoring junior engineers. The position is remote-eligible within the USA, with occasional office work possible. Compensation includes a base pay range of $204,000-$260,000 USD, plus bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 10+ years industry experience
• Experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products
• Experience influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams
• Excitement to ideate, prototype new ideas, and influence product direction
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers, set and drive best practices

Responsibilities

• Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
• Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
• Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
• Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop new host pricing functionality
• Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hand-ons implementation of those solutions
• Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
• Mentor and grow more junior engineers

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits